learn to use chopsticks

haven’t been on here in a while… but at my birthday dinner (back in august) i ate most of my japanese food with chopsticks! i actually get it now. and now i need more japanese food, mmmmmm.

so very fun, and its a jhandy move when noone else around you can do it and theyre stabbing chicken like vikings, you can teach them in a flash and theyre like wowww thanks ^_

My Ma had 100 pairs of pretty cool vintage ivory chopsticks in the cutlery draw in the kitchen throughout my childhood, but just for posterity. Many Filipinos and other South East Asians tend to use their hands when eating, and I never had the chance to even take them out the draw without my hand getting smacked. But I pretty much HAD to learn how to use them when I started learning Japanese at Uni and our lecturer taking us out to Izakaya and Sushi bars. I dreaded the embarrassment I thought I’d have when I started off, but I picked it up pretty quickly.

What helped me was thinking of the two sticks as a giant tweezer! That and practice: I’d eat instant noodles, pasta, fruit salad or fries with chopsticks to get used to using them constantly, at the bemusement of my friends. lol

Remember that some foods (especially oily ones like Ho Fun) are near impossible to use with chopsticks alone, and that’s why restaurants in the Far East even provide locals with a combination of chopsticks and spoons to eat certain dishes. But when you get the whole “cool! you can use chopsticks as well as a (insert nationality of person here) person!” it really pays off!

I think I can safely say I can use chopsticks!
I don’t know how I found it so difficult. Practice makes perfect I guess.

tought my self, and my whole family is jeleous

I’ve lived in Asia on three different occasions, so it was learn to use chopsticks or be really hungry.

It was so worth it just to hear my Chinese and Korean co-workers say “You CAN use chopsticks” like it was the most amazing thing in the world.

I simply learned using chopsticks by my self, just watched Japanese using them on TV and decided to learn how to eat like them.It is an interesting way for eating… speacialy for those who eat fast like me. Eating by using chopsticks will slow me down and let me enjoy the food =)

Last week, we had chinese, and, I cleared my plate using chopsticks alone! However, my food had got a little cold by the time I’d finished, and the rice was a bit of a challenge, but I did it. A few more attempts, and I think I can mark this goal as done :-) woop!

It makes Asian food taste better.

um i did this when i was a kid. really young. um its part of my heritage even my 3yr old sister knows how. its not hard. super easy easier than a fork for me